he tried to ban that in massachusetts. deval patrick, when he took over, he lifted those restrictions right away and unbanned it. mitt romney had pulled massachusetts out of a regional effort in the northeast to control greenhouse gases. when deval patrick took office, he reversed that decision right away. he put massachusetts back into that agreement. governor deval patrick was sworn in on january 4th. it was only two weeks later, by january 18th, the romney denialism on climate change was over, and massachusetts was back in the world of science. here's the really interesting thing, though. that same month, when mitt romney left office and deval patrick got sworn in, and alof those leftover policies the from the romney era got reversed, that same month, the other thing that happened in massachusetts is that romney care started. the month that mitt romney left office, january 2007, that's the same month that massachusetts residents were supposed to start enrolling in the massachusetts version of health reform. which was, a